Artya Arabesque Tourbillon Watch
Yvan Arpa's Artya watches once again debuts a surprise piece unique model at the upper end of what we might expect from the boutique Geneva-based Swiss "art watch" maker. Rather than deforming a watch case with high voltage electricity or decorating a dial with spiders, insect wings, or human blood, we get the Artya Arabesque Tourbillon that is decorated with hand-engraving. What type of hand engraving? Arabesque engravingand they threw in a tourbillon.While timepieces such as this are rare for Artya, they aren't totally unheard of either. Moreover, Yvan Arpa has plenty of experience with extremely high-end watches. Just a few years ago, watches-dealer covered another brand he is involved with called Spero Lucem, with the "crazy hands" La Clemence tourbillon minute repeater. We also went hands-on with the Artya Son of a Gun Tourbillon watch here. For summer 2015, we now have the Artya Arabesque Tourbillon, and according to Yvan Arpa it is inspired by the Wild West.So much of the design

Your Favorite Offshores!
If you could have any Offshores in your collection, which would you choose if price and value were not factors? Based only on how they looks and feel on your wrist.I personally like:Bumble BeeH series Rubber CladCarbon DiverBlack Themes BraceletGrand Prix CarbonYes RG RB2 is pretty fantastic, but I like these ones.

New Railmasters
Was invited to see the Basel offerings at our local boutique. I'm probably in the very small minority that would rather have a non LE model. Both are beauties and it was a hard choice but in the end (for now) I put a deposit down for the lighter dialed one on bracelet, delivery later this year, will be waiting impatiently. For those who might like these, enjoy the photos, as poor as they are . . .

Help me ID this old Omega
Can anyone shed some light on this watch? It came to me via an uncle but nobody seems to know age nor value. Thanks, Mike

Basel unveiling
Question. Baselworld starts March 22, but Rolex says it will unveil the collection March 21. Do they always unveil the day before? I thought they unveil the day of.